Infants Make Quantity Discriminations for Substances

Autor/inn/en	Hespos, Susan J.; Dora, Begum; Rips, Lance J.; Christie, Stella
Titel	Infants Make Quantity Discriminations for Substances
Quelle	In: Child Development, 83 (2012) 2, S.554-567 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01703.x
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Infants; Psychology; Eye Movements; Models; Habituation; Experiments; Science Education; Gender Differences; Identification; Science Experiments; Child Development; Infant Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Psychologie; Augenbewegung; Analogiemodell; Erprobung; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	Infants can track small groups of solid objects, and infants can respond when these quantities change. But earlier work is equivocal about whether infants can track continuous substances, such as piles of sand. Experiment 1 ("N" = 88) used a habituation paradigm to show infants can register changes in the size of piles of sand that they see poured from a container when there is a 1-to-4 ratio. Experiment 2 ("N" = 82) tested whether infants could discriminate a 1-to-2 ratio. The results demonstrate that females could discriminate the difference but males could not. These findings constitute the youngest evidence of successful quantity discriminations for a noncohesive substance and begin to characterize the nature of the representation for noncohesive entities. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10